What is "parsecs"

Usage examples of "parsecs".

Scorpius and Sagittarius, but when dealing with distances measured in parsecs on the far end of a little-used blink route, one did not rely on optical readings as interpreted by the always fallible human mind.

Hades, of retrochronalities, of time flowing in reverse of the time of the entire galaxy, so that the expedition could return to the vicinity of the Sun less than twenty years after takeoff, even though a thousand parsecs separated the Harpy from Earth.

And the simple fact that we are here, from a distance of hundreds of parsecs, means more than any flexing of huge biceps.

And as he looked b could imagine, hear in his mind, the din, the roar, the sigh and moan of millions crowded into small spaces and his heart flew the countless parsecs and yearned for the Bojacks of Texas, the trackless plains with the grazing herds, the wide sky, the soft caress of the winds of home.

Far out in the rim there are multiples of cubic parsecs of space which contain less than nothing, it seems, for empty space can be more than nothing, and the vast spaces between the hard, bright stars become an enormous black hole.

He waited for acknowledgment and got it, acknowledgment meaning only that the stat had been started across the parsecs toward the addressee.

Lex repeated, in a stunned voice, as he fell a thousand parsecs deep into her eyes.

Texas had extended a protectorate into the periphery to a depth of ten parsecs from the outlying stars.

According to Klestronu intelligence, the second richest planet in the Confederation is Aslarsan, less than four parsecs from here.

The Garthid flag division, which had swept past the gate, was in another sector of space, parsecs distant.

He had not traveled an unconscionable number of parsecs to hear what he had already heard once before, on Earth.

There were stars in here, suns that were visible only a few parsecs away.

Gordon too saw them in the screen, the massed specks that were thousands of League warships less than twelve parsecs away.

The Prince knew that the total number of captured intact berserkers in the whole war had been no more than ten or twelve, an amazingly small number considering that the human war against them had raged through thousands of battles, fought across millions of cubic parsecs of the Galaxy, and had dragged on over a span of many centuries.

But the drug had him parsecs from true sleep, so he simply lay there, an unfocused void.